RAMBLIN' movements

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Friday, August 14, 2009

funny how this world works...listening to a favorite Bruce Cockburnthinking about eternitysome kind of ecstasty got a hold on meand i was listening to that same song when i picked up the rock in the photo...all the fossils were red in the rocks we sat on for breakfast one morning while rafting down the colorado river thru utah canyonlands. and the essence of the fossils, how they formed in this rock inspired parts of this painting. fossilizing my day while painting, making choices, discarding remnants, layers built on top of others, parts worn away, just as parts of our souls are worn away by the mundaneness of everyday life...i sit in amazement as i listen to people at work give recognition to people able to tolerate the wearing down of their being. shake my head, glazing eyesight, shedding skin, schucking toxic moments left in the air, embracing fertile dreams and memories...rubbing them on my body let them role down the curve of my back like sweat dripping in my eyes and stinging my senses alive. aspirating transparent living energy, leaving them as salty ripples caught in the enfolding years of my life...i giggle as i lick off the morning dew of this expanding moment.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

painting just started today....finally. ummm, humid weather has the painting acting a bit suspiciously. opening this afternoon for the "forgery show" here on the island. all paintings are copies of famous paintings. a sketch leading up to this work...jazz giving me a hand.art car

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009

WAY green on the way up independence pass 12,200 feet above see level and over to aspen...and yes that is snow.

SNAKE RIVER in idaho, for those of you who are snake lovers....

the bike in the landscape somewhere in utah

BLOODY, BLOODY KNEEsome pictures from Ride The Rockies, a bike tour thru the colorado mountains...my bloody knee was not from a fall on the bike, but an encounter with a porta-potty door (seen on right in background) that got out of control. only blood i shed on the trip. it was cool and comfortable weather and we went thru some snow spitting on us outside of aspen. lots of food and laughs, some friends showed up to enjoy the ride and the scenery.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Training Hill (hill being the operative word when i am going to the mountains...)

Training Trail

Ride The Rockies (RTR) spoke cards to be handed out at the top of the three passes.

ahhh, Jazz totally recovered from her little "jumping" adventure, looking out over her world.

it has been a while since i last posted, but i feel the need...(in salute to john denver, below is sung to "leavin on a jet plane")my car is packedwere ready to goi am sittin here inside my boxtypin these words to make you all crybut the road is callinthe wind is blowinand Jazz is waitinshes' lickin her nosealready i am so gonei could fly

so miss me and wish for mebest colo'ado bikin climbin mountains and drinkin beeri'm leavin on the 5:00 boatdick's burger and fries on my dashoh yeah i love to go

Monday, August 4, 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008

so, i have always wanted to write a book. this is the cover to my first draft...sketches and pieces of my day. what to trash and what to save, constant decisions we make in our lifes, every moment every second as we inhale and exhale RESPIRATING physically and emotionally consuming and liberation our emotional ties with existence. bodies unconsciously exchanging with surrounding bodies of energy. releasing engaging love/life/tension/peace. compressing the space between us, squeezing moments into hardened crystal memories to put in our pockets and carry with us so that we may loose them in the laundry or toss them into future bodies of water. breathing.

RESPIRATION The oxidative process occurring within living cells by which the chemical energy of organic molecules is released in a series of metabolic steps involving the consumption of oxygen and the liberation of carbon dioxide and water.

ASPIRATION Aspiration (phonetics), the release of a strong burst of air after some obstruents

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

flying into seattle this massive volcano filled our window...lots of personality there. some new sketches, been a little more disciplined in my sketching/drawing and utilizing my skills. still drawn to observing and drawing architecture, the shadows of form defining space with the use of line... use of line to record my thought processes. stephen and alison have worked hard to finish their house...beautiful and inspirational to draw, nice proportions. updated some paintings below, CUP OF TEA and ARTERIAL VIEW are recent additions. more to come.

a painting in progress with detail.

early morning sitting at red rocks looking east over the hogback towards green mountain and the colorado plains...

just drawin whats in front of me. blindly.

alison and i spent some very cold time looking for these gladiolas, ended up i got distracted by the table cloth blowing in the warm wind that evening...

finally got to ride in the carman gia, robins egg blue with the radio very loud...at one point i think the sky was the same color as the car.

WHAT?

articulating the transformative notion of parallaxing experiences
INDOLENCE-evolved from the Latin in-dolens, "without griefs", implying "not worried about problems." Indolence can mean:
Etymology
First attested 1603, from French indolence, insensitivity to pain, from Latin indolentia, insensibility, from in- not + dolere to grieve. Sense of laziness, first attested 1710, is related to taking pains.